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Originally Posted by SPJ
Anyone ever hear of this one or use this one before?
I am thinking of upgrading from a hovabator and I like the fact that this one has the low water alarm and you add water to the unit to control the humidity.
http://www.geckoincubator.com/ |
My honest opinion on that one Steve is it's a lot of hype for nothing. I was shocked when I saw what they wanted for that. Don't waste your money.
The reason you add water to the unit to control humidity is it's tiny. The unit itself is the incubation container.
I don't know what they consider medium eggs, but you're never going to get 60 snake eggs in a 19" x 16" space unless they're cornsnake eggs packed closely. Well, maybe rough green snake eggs, but show me someone who'll have 60 of those at one time.
Regardless, even if you only get 2-4 clutches in there, they're all together. Unless you're breeding nothing but normals or codoms, you won't know what you have when they hatch and start moving around. Forget any breedings that will produce hets. Keeping track of bloodlines is out too.
Unless you're just wanting a real expensive box to incubate single clutches in it looks like a waste of money to me.
On the same hand I haven't seen a lower end "commercial" incubator yet that I thought was worth the asking price. I have $40 in my 21 cubic foot incubator not including thermostat and I just can't see those $300-400 jobs working any better.
The NS and Big Apple incubators look like fine pieces of equipment, but at $500 and $600 with a thermostat for something less than half the size of mine? Not hardly.
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